What the records say
- When
- 11 Mar 1596
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 21.75° N, 82.85° W
- Description
- 1596 naval battle near Cuba
- Naval
- yes
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Battle of Pinos
1596 naval battle near Cuba
The Battle of Pinos was a naval engagement between a Spanish fleet under Admiral Bernardino Delgadillo y Avellaneda and the surviving ships of Francis Drake's expedition to the Spanish West Indies, now in command of Drake's lieutenant, Sir Thomas Baskerville, which took place off the Island of Pinos during the Anglo-Spanish war of 1585. The Spanish squadron was victorious, capturing two English ships.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Battle of Pinos is fought between the English Navy (with 14 warships) and the Spanish Navy (with 13 galleons) off of the coast Cuba's Isla de Pinos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page